Orchard tree planting update
Orchard tree planting update The nursery is unable to lift the trees until the new year so we have had to postpone the event unfortunately. We hope to have the […]
Website for Abberley Parish Council
Abberley is a parish in rural West Worcestershire situated within the Malvern Hills District Council boundaries. It is an approximate rectangle, 6 miles long and up to a mile wide. The ridge of Abberley Hill forms the long eastern boundary.
Abberley Hill is formed of an overturned thrust fold of Silurian rocks capped with a breccia of Permian age. On the west side of the hill, the sandstones, clays and coal seams of The Wyre Forest coalfield provided employment in extraction of coal from the Middle Ages until the late 1920s and clay for making bricks and tiles from at least the late fifteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. At the east end of the parish, the underlying clays and sandstones are of Devonian age.
The settlement pattern of Abberley like many parishes in Worcester dates from at least Saxon times and is and remains a dispersed one with houses grouped around farmsteads or greens, Town Farm and Elms Green attest to this style of settlement. Recent local history projects have identified evidence of both pre-historic people and Romans living in the area as well as continuous occupation from the Medieval period to the present day. Farming remains the dominant land use, orchards are far less plentiful than they had been but hops are now being grown again.
Within the parish, a hunting lodge and its associated deer park were given to a favourite of the William the Conqueror after the Battle of Hastings but at times reverted to the Crown, the last hereditary owners, the Bromleys, sold the estate in 1836. Abberley Lodge was demolished and a new house named Abberley Hall was built by the Moilliets, a Birmingham banking family, the estate was later owned by John Joseph Jones, an Oldham industrialist and banker. After 1910, the Jones heirs chose not to live in Abberley and from 1912, the building has housed Abberley Hall preparatory school. Former pupils include a number of MPs including Geoffrey Howe, later Lord Abaravon and Philip Dunne the sitting MP for South Shropshire. Abberley’s other grand house, The Elms was owned by the Sir Richard and Lady Brooke from 1926 until 1946.
Abberley has had a village school since 1717, the school has occupied its current building since 1859. Abberley Post Office was run from rooms in private houses until moving into the Village Stores, Abberley’s remaining village shop, in the twenty first century. The Manor Arms, the remaining pub, was originally called the Bromley Arms. Abberley retains two Church of England churches, but did also have a Methodist Chapel. Owen’s Garage continues to provide a car repair business, but no longer sells fuel or operates the local bus service as it did in the twentieth century.
Latest News Items
PUBLIC NOTICE- Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (As Amended) Worcestershire County Council (Various Roads, Abberley) (30 Mph and 40 Mph Speed Limit) (Revocation and Proposal) Order 2024 Order the effect of which will be to update the speed limit on the following lengths of roads in Abberley to 40 miles per hour
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (As Amended) Worcestershire County Council (Various Roads, Abberley) (30 Mph and 40 Mph Speed Limit) (Revocation and Proposal) Order 2024 Order the effect of which […]
Abberley Parish Council has 2 vacancies for co-option onto the Parish Council as Councillor.
Abberley Parish Council has 2 vacancies for co-option onto the Parish Council as Councillor. Please see the form linked below. Click here to open co-option guidance and form Please return […]
Abberley Parish Council has 3 vacancies for co-option to the Parish Council as Councillor
Please see the form linked below. click here to open co-option details and form Please return your completed form, together with the completed Co-option Eligibility Form to: Abberley Parish Council, […]
NOTICE OF VACANCY IN OFFICE OF COUNCILLOR for “The Parish of Abberley”
NOTICE OF VACANCY IN OFFICE OF COUNCILLOR The Parish of Abberley NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a casual vacancy has arisen in the Office of Councillor for the Parish Council […]
NOTICE OF VACANCY IN OFFICE OF COUNCILLOR Parish of Abberley
NOTICE OF VACANCY IN OFFICE OF COUNCILLOR- Parish of Abberley NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a casual vacancy has arisen in the Office of Councillor for the Parish Council […]
NOTICE OF VACANCY IN OFFICE OF COUNCILLOR – Parish of Abberley
NOTICE OF VACANCY IN OFFICE OF COUNCILLOR Parish of Abberley NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a casual vacancy has arisen in the Office of Councillor for the Parish Council […]
Update to Speed Limit Order – Malvern Hills District – Various Roads, Abberley
Sent on behalf of the Head of Traffic Management for Worcestershire County Council with regard to the above matter. Following a review, it has been decided to update some speed […]